...Officials at the McGill University Health Centre now believe that too many tampons being flushed down toilets in one concentrated area of the superhospital is the main cause of the sewage backups that flooded the birthing centre last August.

“What’s causing the blockages in these areas are still the pads and the brown paper,” says MUHC spokesman Ian Popple.

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First of all, who are these monsters who flush paper towels down the toilet? Moving on, though: the MUHC, which opened last spring, houses the majority of its female-centered healthcare on one central floor.

“That’s the floor where you have a large number of women’s toilets and where larger, thicker pads get lodged in the pipes,” Popple explains.

The flooding is now under control, but the flushing of pads and tampons continues to be a problem so let’s go over this one more time. Where do tampons and pads go? All together now: NEVER! IN! THE! TOILET!